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Blog Post
Its Harvest time!
The children have really enjoyed watching the combine cutting the corn outside the nursery this week.
The children asked lots of wonderful questions and watched in amazement as they learnt that the crops would be used to make their bread!
Olive Barn Nursery Steeple Bumpstead - Opened February 2023
We are so proud to be working towards The Food For Life Early Years Award!
An absolutely wonderful day celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee with all of our children and parents in our forest area. :)
There’s mud on my shirt, 👕 and leaves in my hair. 🍁 There’s mud on my boots 🥾 but I really don’t care. 😆
The children within the nursery had a great morning practising their football skills with Coach Gary. ⚽️
Baby room have been hatching their own chickens for the nursery farm. Now they are a little bigger they have been moved into a bigger house in the baby garden. 🐣 Preschool are also hatching eggs, and have just 17 days until their ducklings are here! 🦆
As previously shown, we have continued to develop our well loved outdoor areas. Outdoor play is one of our main focuses at the nursery and we always continue to improve our environment using the childrens interests. We have recently added an art easel to the garden area, with clear Perspex, the children love painting watching their friends either side.
For Mother's day the children and staff at the nursery invited all of their Mums to an afternoon tea. Children within each class made sandwiches, scones, fruit platters, jam and cakes for everyone to enjoy. Staff served hot drinks, and decorated our outside environment with pink blossom trees and seating. All of the Mummies enjoyed their afternoon spent with the nursery and their children. Thank you to everyone who came, it was so lovely to spend time with you all.
Barn Kids are offering two whole weeks of Easter holiday cover. As well as covering local school's teacher training day on Tuesday 23rd April. The Easter Break begins on Monday 8th April and runs until Tuesday 23rd April. The holiday scheme consists of trips to local parks, forest school activities, sports coach and more. Our Barn Kids cabin has lots of fun games for all children to play, and we also offer Breakfast, Snack and Tea. If you would like further information on our holiday scheme programme please contact us info@thebarnkids.co.uk Sessions Available: School Day 9:00-3:30 £25.00 All Day 7:45-6:15 £32.20
Part of our on-going efforts to improve our provision for children is our playground revamp. We have been observing how the playground is used by children and staff, the opportunities it presents as well as how often children use this space to free flow. Parents and carers of the setting wanted to see some changes, and supported this through fundraising events. We found that our space was mainly being used to support physical development, as children chose to ride bikes and scooters. Centred around this theme the playground has been decorated and reorganised to support this interest. We are also having the large floor space changed as soon as the weather brightens, and it will include fun road markings for the children to follow.
